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Vintage Salt Shakers and Where to Find Them

There are many collectors of vintage salt shakers today. Collecting is an interesting business, especially if one is dealing with readily available items such as the salt and pepper shakers. If you want to join others in this business, this article will be very useful to you. When dealing with old stuff, you ought to plan yourself. Shakers, especially the designs that emerged in the nineteenth century are very, very old and are grouped among the Victorian Age items.

 

So, you can start collecting the salt and peppershakers based on their time of construction. It is easier to collect quickly and effectively following this kind of plan. Secondly, you may want to consider using the very old American manufacturers as your guiding light. There are many companies existing such as the Fiz & Floyd. Be sure to search each brand's information because this can help you know what shoppers feel about its shaker product line.

 

Each brand will have a wide range of vintage shakers and it will even be difficult to distinguish the best ones. Another factor to base your search upon would be the design of shakers. There are many designs available but they are all compressed into five groups including nodders, huggers, minis, stackers and hangers. Well, if you are collecting shakers for the first time, you may want to use the Internet to search information about any of the above categories.

 

Would like to know other ways to search? You can simply read all there is about the vintage salt shakers just to get familiar with them. If you want a short cut, you can visit various online stores that are seriously in this business. Look through their product categories for antique salt and peppershakers and view the images. Most of the times, a short description and product features will accompany the image.

 

Even so, you cannot find enough history about these old treasures without making an effort to search for it. If your plan is selling collectibles online as well, you may want to sell an older shaker with all its history, if possible, to make it more interesting to the shoppers. It is advisable to join a collecting club because it will be easy to gather information from other members.

 

These clubs are available on the Internet too. As you view various images, you will realize that these items boast various themes because their source is not only the U.S. Some will come from the most cultural oriented communities in Asia such as Japanese, particularly the porcelain styles. What is more, a few of these items will feature famous themes such as the Santa Clause for Xmas, King and Queen, Indian Chief, and even animal themes.

 

In case you have special interest in metallic stuff, the sterling silver shakers will be good choices. These are the commonest vintage salt shakers available in the marketplace today. People love them because they are long lasting and will even last for several years if properly maintained. Besides, silver plus glass models do look great and even though they are slightly fragile, you can learn how to handle them carefully.

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Copy Right and vintage images Question! HELP?

I would like to make some vintage magnits and some fun stuff like that but am having a problem. There are many people on ebay claming they have a cds with lots of vintage images from greeting cards and so on and they have the copyright of it.
What exactly does that mean? There are other sites that I have found with the same images that claim its a "public domain" image and can be used however.

First...how can I get and make a cd of images from old greeting cards and make it so I can sell...?

Where is a place that has fun craft ideas to use with vintage images?

thanks

Images that were published before 1923 are now automatically in the public domain in most all cases, so those can be used then sold.
Some people may have drawn or painted those vintage-looking images though and do have a current copyright (or just claim to have one to discourage others from using then selling them).
And other people may just claim to have copyrighted images on a DVD, etc., when they don't, or when they're claiming them as part of the DVD which they've created (instructions and specific pieces can be copyrighted).

Some places and books will sell images which can be freely used (either because they own them or they're in the public domain), but some may specify that only a certain number of items can be sold with those images (generally things that aren't *sold* aren't too much of a problem)--but those could be problems if you actually want to make a CD to sell since presumably you'd want to sell it to lots of people.
(This sort of thing is true with rubber stamps too ...the companies which offer ones you can use or have limited-sale use, are often called "angel" companies.)

Check out some of these sites re copy rights for more info:

http://www.google.com/search?q=copyright+images+public+domain

Diane B.

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